This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here December 23, 2020 As 2020 comes to a close, NMLEA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the NMLEA Insider a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, January 6. .INDUSTRY NEWS A boater threw something overboard, the Coast Guard found it, and now there's trouble The Miami Herald From Jan. 7 A man sped through the evening darkness in a boat off the Florida Keys, turning off his navigation lights to avoid attracting attention. But all that effort had the opposite result, according to federal court documents filed Monday. READ MORE Coast Guard to announce plans to make Charleston one of its largest US bases The Post and Courier From Feb. 18: The Coast Guard’s top officer will announce Thursday that Charleston will become one of the largest concentrations of ships and guardsman in the nation, growing the economic footprint of the military in the region. READ MORE Trump signs spending bills with big increases for waterways and maritime programs ABC 4 NewsWork Boat From Jan. 7: President Trump signed into law two massive spending bills on Dec. 20 that include healthy budgets for ongoing inland waterways construction and maintenance as well as port dredging and investment, while also signing a defense bill that supports shipyard grants and would ease the transition from military to mariner jobs. READ MORE Some DoD civilian, Coast Guard families concerned about being bumped from military child care Military Times From March 10: Some Defense Department civilians, active-duty Coast Guard members and others are scrambling to find other child care amidst their uncertainty about their children’s future in military child care. READ MORE Coast Guard and British Navy seize $46M in cocaine on 3 speedboats Military.com From Feb. 12: Two separate busts in the Caribbean late last month seized a total of $46.2 million in cocaine, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Nine people were arrested in the operations, and the Coast Guard says about 1,400 kilograms, or 3,086 pounds, of cocaine were confiscated. READ MORE Coronavirus on the high seas: Why the US can't touch cruise lines Politico From March 17: The nightmare of coronavirus outbreaks on cruise ships has revealed an industry that's skirted oversight for years and used powerful allies in Washington to keep the government out of its business. READ MORE They filleted their fish at sea — that's against the law, Coast Guard says The Miami Herald From Feb. 12: The U.S. Coast Guard stopped a sport fishing boat off Key Largo Monday and found several conservation violations, including the importation of queen conch, the harvest of which has been illegal in Florida since the 1980s, according to the agency. READ MORE Coast Guard vessel capsizes, 4 crew members rescued KOIN - TV From Jan. 7 A Coast Guard vessel with 4 crew members aboard capsized after encountering several heavy wakes in Astoria. The 25-foot Trailerable Aids to Navigation Boat capsized just after 11:30 on Saturday morning near Pier 39 in Astoria. Watchstanders at the 13th Coast Guard District command center in Seattle received 4 alerts from Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team Astoria, which corroborated multiple good Samaritans’ reports coming in at the same time. READ MORE Unusually large narco submarine may be new challenge for Coast Guard Forbes From Aug. 13: The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy have faced an array of so-called narco submarines, purpose built for smuggling cocaine, for the last fifteen years. These are constantly evolving. Now a super-sized narco submarine has been discovered in the Colombian jungle. READ MORE Behind the scenes of Coast Guard rescue missions WKRG - TV From Jan. 29: News 5’s Caroline Carithers got a front-row seat to how the Coast Guard trains for search and rescue missions by getting to go on the boat during training to witness troubleshooting steering failure, a man-overboard drill, and more! READ MORE   NMLEA E-Trends Connect with NMLEA Dennis Hall, Director of Publishing, MultiView, 469-420-2656 | Download media kit Lexi Silverberg, Content Editor, MultiView, 289-695-5367 | Contribute news National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy 1050 17th St NW, Suite 600  |  Washington, DC 20036  Contact Us  |  www.nmlea.org Click here to unsubscribe.  Learn how to add us to your safe sender list so our emails get to your inbox. ADVERTISE SUBSCRIBE PAST ISSUES   7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063